The 1919 Ordnance Survey edition marks it as "Cloighard or Loighta", a bilingual placeholder of sorts, neither name firmly settling the question of what this stone was once called or why it was called that. More curious still, the stone does not appear on the 1838 OS six-inch map, which means that for the first great wave of Irish cartographic surveying it was either ignored, unknown to the surveyors, or simply overlooked in a county full of ancient stonework.

The stone itself is a solid, rectangular block, upright and straight-sided, standing 1.65 metres high, 0.74 metres wide, and 0.47 metres thick. Its long axis runs roughly northeast to southwest, a directional alignment common to many prehistoric standing stones across Ireland, though what significance, if any, that orientation held for whoever raised it remains unknown. What makes this particular stone slightly unusual in its form are the faint shoulder-like indentations cut into its northwest face, which narrow the upper portion of the stone, giving it a subtly shaped profile rather than a plain pillar. The top tapers to a roughly pyramidal point. It sits immediately beside a field wall in pasture land, with rising ground to the northwest and a ridge to the north-northeast, so it occupies a position that feels enclosed rather than exposed, which is not the most typical setting for a monument of this kind.